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Posts tagged with 'flickr' at MetaFilter.Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:16:02 -0800Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:16:02 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Desire Bot: A Twitter Bot That Re-Posts What the World Wantshttp://www.metafilter.com/146837/Desire%2DBot%2DA%2DTwitter%2DBot%2DThat%2DRe%2DPosts%2DWhat%2Dthe%2DWorld%2DWants
<a href="https://twitter.com/theDesireBot">Desire Bot: A Twitter Bot That Re-Posts What the World Wants</a> A Twitter bot that reposts tweets it finds that begin with 'I just want' and pairs the nouns used in that tweet with matching images from Flickr. [via <a href='http://projects.metafilter.com/4515/Desire-Bot-A-Twitter-Bot-That-Re-Posts-What-the-World-Wants'>mefi projects</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146837Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:16:02 -0800joseph conrad is fully awesomeHow to load the dishwasher. Every dishwasher.http://www.metafilter.com/145928/How%2Dto%2Dload%2Dthe%2Ddishwasher%2DEvery%2Ddishwasher
Writer <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2015/01/04/dishwasher/">Joe Clark downloaded user guides</a> from every dishwasher manufacturer he could find, and collected the illustrations showing the correct way to load each model into <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72157647793041923/">the most deeply satisfying Flickr album you will ever see</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.145928Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:51:40 -0800apricotInternet Archive adds Millions of Public Domain Images to Flickrhttp://www.metafilter.com/142345/Internet%2DArchive%2Dadds%2DMillions%2Dof%2DPublic%2DDomain%2DImages%2Dto%2DFlickr
Looking for another source of public domain images? Yahoo research fellow Kalev Leetaru has extracted over 14 million images from IA public domain book scans, and so far 2.6 million of them have been posted to the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/">Internet Archive Book Images photostream</a>, where they have become part of <a href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/08/29/welcome-the-internet-archive-to-the-commons/">The Commons</a>. More info from the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28976849">BBC</a> and the Internet Archive <a href="http://blog.archive.org/2014/08/29/millions-of-historic-images-posted-to-flickr/">blog post.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142345Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:31:51 -0800fingsWired Profiles Stewart Butterfieldhttp://www.metafilter.com/141854/Wired%2DProfiles%2DStewart%2DButterfield
<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup/">The Most Fascinating Profile You'll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141854Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:52:24 -0800chunking expressA Day in the Life of Asian Pacific Americahttp://www.metafilter.com/141300/A%2DDay%2Din%2Dthe%2DLife%2Dof%2DAsian%2DPacific%2DAmerica
The <a href="http://smithsonianapa.org/">Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center</a> presents an experiment in cultural democracy – the first crowdsourced photo gallery of the Asian Pacific American experience around the world as lived on one day: <a href="http://smithsonianapa.org/life2014/">May 10, 2014</a>. The day was May 10, 2014, the 145th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railway. The Transcontinental Railway was an unprecedented national project that <a href="http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html">relied heavily on Chinese labor</a>, but whose Asian history was <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/05/10/311157404/descendants-of-chinese-laborers-reclaim-railroads-history">excluded from its visual documentation</a> in the <a href="http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/05/10/promontory-point-utah-xl_enl-c1cb4e2e16a22ba98378aa5758db28f5a4b016f7-s40.jpg">iconic picture of the Golden Spike ceremony</a> at Promontory, Utah taken on May 10, 1869. This crowdsourced experiment is motivated by this exclusion. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141300Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:35:37 -0800sarahnadeBefore Google maps: Six hundred miles of highwayshttp://www.metafilter.com/140957/Before%2DGoogle%2Dmaps%2DSix%2Dhundred%2Dmiles%2Dof%2Dhighways
The photographs in this set <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mastatelibrary/sets/72157624275776889/">depict roads and highways in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1892 to 1893</a>. The photos accompany the "<a href="https://archive.org/details/reportofcommissi00massrich">Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the Commonwealth</a>" published in February of 1893. <blockquote>Until the early 1890s, roadways in Massachusetts were maintained by local authorities. Poor road conditions were seen as an impediment to commerce. Therefore, in 1892, the legislature established a commission to improve the highways in Massachusetts. As part of their report, the commission photographed roads around the state to illustrate their condition.
Many of these locally maintained roads were old stage routes and were improved to create the basis of the state highway system.<br> -<a href="http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/oversight-agencies/lib/highways.html"> MA State Library</a></blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.140957Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:51:32 -0800jessamyn"new, innovative ways to convey our findings"http://www.metafilter.com/140771/new%2Dinnovative%2Dways%2Dto%2Dconvey%2Dour%2Dfindings
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/">The US GAO Flickr page</a> features selected photos and graphics from US Government Accountability Office reports that are searchable, viewable, and downloadable by visitors to <a href="http://www.gao.gov/">their site</a>. You can <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/sets/">browse by sets</a>, or peek at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/favorites/">what they've favorited</a>, or here are a few notable images.
- <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/14326100457/">status of broadband loan repayments</a>
- colorful <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/14473562366/">next gen air tankers</a>
- <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/14495370044/">home with (fire) defensible space</a>
- <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/14464424994/">where the cocaine comes from</a>
- <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/14381599946/">Percentage Change in Number of Flights and Available Seats by Airport Category</a>
- <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usgao/14339533254/">Estimated Percentage of Causes of Incorrect SSNs Associated with Deceased Individuals in State's Passport Data</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.140771Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:32:13 -0800jessamynInsert 25 Centshttp://www.metafilter.com/138977/Insert%2D25%2DCents
Revisit the glory days of coin-op goodness with the Flickr pool <a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/arcades/pool/with/6550258/">Growing Up In Arcades: 1979-1989</a>. (A nice companion to Horace Rumpole's <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/123898/For-Amusement-Only-The-life-and-death-of-the-American-arcade">previous post</a> from last year.) tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138977Fri, 09 May 2014 13:36:57 -0800AlonzoMosleyFBIThousands of photographs of Tibethttp://www.metafilter.com/138023/Thousands%2Dof%2Dphotographs%2Dof%2DTibet
<a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/">Gorgeous photographs of Tibet</a>, thousands of them by <a href="http://www.redefinemag.com/2012/tibet-scenery-colors-jan-reurink-photography/">Jan Reurink</a> with excellent, informative captions. Exceptionally detailed, clear photographs of a<a href="https://flic.kr/p/f5MzWV"> huge</a> variety of Tibetan<a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/9326657464/"> landscapes</a>,<a href="https://flic.kr/p/hdrSXM"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/8F4AG5"> architecture</a></a> of all <a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/11958962133/">kinds</a>,<a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157612714141334/"> flowers</a>,<a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/72157607926302446/"> wildlife</a>, cool <a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/12983473744/">details</a>, <a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/11061854784/">monastic cities</a>. Of course, all kinds of Tibetan people, from a<a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/9446878829/"> high plains cowboy in a dusty town</a>,
<a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/8730068169/"> monastic staff</a>, <a href="https://flic.kr/p/bX7aHE">nomads</a> to <a href="https://flic.kr/p/h5fpGz">kids</a>. <a href="https://flic.kr/p/8F4AG5">Tibetan Chough on a rooftop</a>
<a href="https://flic.kr/p/hLxAnE"><a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/13396962303/">Yaks and dris in pasture</a></a>
<a href="https://flic.kr/p/kkqTDc">Griffon vulture</a>.
All of <a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/reurinkjan/sets/">Jan Reurink's great Flickr sets</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138023Fri, 04 Apr 2014 16:09:07 -0800nickyskyeVizify: We've been acquired by Yahoo!http://www.metafilter.com/137222/Vizify%2DWeve%2Dbeen%2Dacquired%2Dby%2DYahoo
<a href="http://www.vizify.com">Vizify</a>, the service which <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/05/yahoo-buys-vizify-a-startup-that-turns-social-data-into-pretty-pictures/">turns social data into pretty pictures</a>, have been acquired by Yahoo. According to their <a href="https://www.vizify.com/yahoo#transition">announcement</a>, "we just couldn't say no to the opportunity to bring our vision to the hundreds of millions of people who use Yahoo every day." Vizify, operating out of Portland, was <a href="https://www.vizify.com/yahoo#story">2 years and 9 months old</a>. <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2014/vizify-acquired-yahoo/">Geekwire</a>: "As a result of the acquisition, Vizify will be shutting down its service and will no longer be accepting new users as of Wednesday."
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619946-93/yahoo-buys-vizify-firm-that-visualizes-social-media-data/">c|net</a>: "The buyout is Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's 37th acquisition since taking the reins at the company in 2012."
<a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2014/03/yahoo-buys-portlands-vizify.html">Portland Business Journal</a>: "Vizify's five employees are joining Yahoo's media product organization in San Francisco, according to a Yahoo spokesperson."
<a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2014/03/05/yahoo-ticking-downward-after-vizify-deal-login-news/">Barron's</a>: "In addition, Yahoo announced this morning that it will no longer allow users sign into its services with their Facebook (FB) or Google (GOOG) IDs." tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.137222Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:07:05 -0800WordshoreThe Surreal Photos of Miss Anielahttp://www.metafilter.com/135718/The%2DSurreal%2DPhotos%2Dof%2DMiss%2DAniela
<a href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/01/10/the-lady-gaga-of-flickr-photography/">The Surreal Photos of Miss Aniela</a> "I like to think of my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndybisz/sets/72157627550688977/">Surreal Fashion</a> series as an adventure, even for me as the maker," Natalie says. "When I'm constructing them, it's like falling deep into a good book. And I want my viewers to feel that too. I want them to enjoy all the nuances in the visuals of each piece, and even to feel slightly ill-at-ease with what is real and not real." tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.135718Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:26:39 -0800dhruvaoublio: most popular stuff on the internethttp://www.metafilter.com/133828/oublio%2Dmost%2Dpopular%2Dstuff%2Don%2Dthe%2Dinternet
<a href="http://www.oublio.com">oublio: most popular stuff on the internet</a> "I made a site and I thought MeFi might find it interesting: It shows the most popular image on Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and Flickr in real time, as well as the most popular videos on YouTube each day: www.oublio.com. Now you can waste time on social media more efficiently!"
[via <a href='http://projects.metafilter.com/4150/oublio-most-popular-stuff-on-the-internet'>mefi projects</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.133828Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:07:06 -0800xingcat"Let your sources surprise you."http://www.metafilter.com/130737/Let%2Dyour%2Dsources%2Dsurprise%2Dyou
<a href="http://serendipomatic.org/"></a> Enter some text about your interests or research topic into the <a href="http://serendipomatic.org/">Serendip-O-Matic,</a> and get an intriguing array of related images and primary sources from the<a href="http://dp.la/"> Digital Public Library of America</a> (DPLA), <a href="http://europeana.eu/">Europeana</a>, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/commons">Flickr Commons</a>. A <a href="http://oneweekonetool.org/">One Week | One Too</a>l project. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130737Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:26:42 -0800MikoLocals and Touristshttp://www.metafilter.com/130374/Locals%2Dand%2DTourists
<em>Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/with/4671507909/">This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true.</a> Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in places that tourists don't visit. <strong>Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals</strong> (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).</em> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/map/">Map of photosets (scroll through photo thumbnails to discover new cities in the photoset</a> <em>Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).
Yellow points are pictures where it can't be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven't taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.
The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken by locals.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.130374Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:49:30 -0800KokuRyuThe expanding canvashttp://www.metafilter.com/129941/The%2Dexpanding%2Dcanvas
<a href="https://medium.com/sports-page/5adc68446049">The Sad and Rapid Decline of the Ball Cap</a>: Including <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiplainsdrifter/sets/72157634553911435/">photos of the 67 hats that survived of the author's 90s-era Hat Collection</a>. <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/10748/the-worst-baseball-cap-in-history">Things</a> are only <a href="http://ballcapblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/2013-padres-taco-bell-caps.html">getting</a> <a href="http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/06/02/teams-will-be-wearing-some-ugly-hats-on-the-fourth-of-july/">worse</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.129941Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:40:52 -0800Potomac AvenueYahoo Overhauls Flickrhttp://www.metafilter.com/128258/Yahoo%2DOverhauls%2DFlickr
<a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419238,00.asp">Flickr announces 1TB free for all users.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128258Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:19 -0800blue_beetleTumblr Tumblr Tumblr, Yahoo!http://www.metafilter.com/128227/Tumblr%2DTumblr%2DTumblr%2DYahoo
<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324787004578493130789235150.html"> Yahoo Inc.'s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said. Tumblr would continue to operate largely as an independent business, the people said.</a>
Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and Flickr in March 2005. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flickr">The reported acquisition cost was $35 million.</a> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326998/Yahoo-buys-Tumblr-1-1billion-Founder-David-Karp-tech-tycoon.html"><em>The Daily Mail</em> on David Karp</a>, Tumblr's foundr.
But not everyone's ecstatic.
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/hell-no-tumblr-users-wont-go-to-yahoo/">Tumblr's users are almost universally unhappy with the news that the site might get sold to Yahoo.</a>
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tumblr-users-are-against-yahoo-buyout-2013-5">Tumblr Users Are Already Revolting Over The Potential Yahoo Buyout</a>
<a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57585157-93/could-tumblr-turn-into-yahoos-myspace/">
Could Tumblr turn into Yahoo's MySpace?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.128227Sun, 19 May 2013 11:17:15 -0800chavenetMarketing a political scandalhttp://www.metafilter.com/127903/Marketing%2Da%2Dpolitical%2Dscandal
The U.S. House of Representatives <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/">Committee on Oversight and Government Reform</a> has a Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/">account</a>. A few highlights. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8721017111">1</a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8718283402">2</a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8712192682">3</a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8707748936">4</a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8699073725">5</a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8700196262">6</a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8696725186">7</a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oversight/8696725190">8</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127903Thu, 09 May 2013 13:50:57 -0800goethean"Ring it Out"http://www.metafilter.com/127187/Ring%2Dit%2DOut
Last fall, the Canadian Space Agency asked students to design a simple science experiment that could be performed in space, using items already available aboard the International Space Station. Today, <a href="https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield">Commander Chris Hadfield</a> conducted the winner for its designers: two tenth grade students, Kendra Lemke and Meredith Faulkner, in a live feed to their school in Fall River, Nova Scotia. And now, we finally have an answer to the age-old question, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8TssbmY-GM#!">What Happens When You Wring Out A Washcloth In Space?</a> <strong>Additional Videos</strong>
Commander Hatfield is Canadian, and has been recording videos for the CSA from the ISS during the current mission, which they have been uploading to their YouTube channel. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQOkL2zDas&list=PLUaartJaon3LV-ZQ4J3bNQj4VNVG2ByIG">Playlist</a>. The vids cover random <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZx0RIV0wss">trivia</a> about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94-puZit3DA">living</a> in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wam7poPzG1w">space</a>. There's also an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGrzo4IvXyg">inspirational message</a> and a discussion or two of other <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMQOkL2zDas">experiments</a> the astronauts have been conducting.
<strong>Background</strong>
* NBC's Cosmic Log: <a href="http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/18/17815102-what-happens-when-you-wring-out-a-washcloth-in-zero-g-now-we-know?lite">What happens when you wring out a washcloth in zero-G? Now we know.</a>
* Mashable: <a href="http://mashable.com/2013/04/18/wringing-out-water-on-the-iss/">What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth in Space?</a>
* <a href="http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/media/news_releases/2013/0416.asp">CSA Press Release</a>
<strong>Expedition 35: Photos</strong>
* Commander Hadfield's <a href="http://colchrishadfield.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a>
* NASA's Flickr Photo <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/sets/72157629789507930/detail/">Set</a> for Expedition 35.
<strong>Previously on Metafilter</strong>
* <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/123783/Gorgeous-photos-of-earth-tweeted-from-the-International-Space-Station">Gorgeous photos of earth tweeted from the International Space Station</a>
* <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/123200/Space-jam">Space jam</a>
<strong>Other Stuff</strong>
* <a href="http://www.cyberbuzz.com/2013/01/05/the-single-greatest-meme-to-ever-happen-on-twitter/">The Greatest Conversations To Ever Happen On Twitter Between Real Astronauts And The Cast of Star Trek</a>
* Reddit IAmA: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18pik4/i_am_astronaut_chris_hadfield_currently_orbiting/">I Am Astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently orbiting planet Earth.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127187Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:29:53 -0800zarqOperation Overlordhttp://www.metafilter.com/126148/Operation%2DOverlord
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/">PhotosNormandie</a> is a collaborative collection of more than 3,000 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/photosnormandie/">royalty-free</a> photos from World War II's Battle of Normandy and its aftermath. (Photos date from June 6 to late August 1944). The main link goes to the photostream. You can also peruse <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/sets/">sets</a>, which include 2700+ images from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/sets/72157611749224223/">US</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photosnormandie/sets/72157611794620956/">Canadian</a> National Archives. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.126148Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:21:02 -0800zarqThe flicker of the campfire, the wind in the pines...http://www.metafilter.com/124373/The%2Dflicker%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dcampfire%2Dthe%2Dwind%2Din%2Dthe%2Dpines
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmuseumofamericanhistory/sets/72157632599028807/">Girl Scout Camping, 1919.</a> More at the <a href="http://blog.americanhistory.si.edu/osaycanyousee/2013/01/summer-memories-of-girl-scouting-in-1919-now-online.html">Smithsonian/American History blog</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124373Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:21:33 -0800MikoTo help us deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions...http://www.metafilter.com/122998/To%2Dhelp%2Dus%2Ddeliver%2Dinteresting%2Dpaid%2Dor%2Dsponsored%2Dcontent%2Dor%2Dpromotions
On December 5th, Instagram's founder Kevin Systrom <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/12/05/instagram-war-twitter-opinion/">announced that Instagram would cut support for Twitter cards</a>. On December 10th, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/10/tech/social-media/twitter-adds-filters/index.html">Twitter updated its mobile apps to include Instagram-like photo filters</a>. On December 12th, <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/12/flickr-has-the-opportunity-to-become-the-next-flickr/">Flickr did too</a>. On December 16th, <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/disruptions-instagram-testimony-doesnt-add-up-2/">the New York Times reported that Systrom may have perjured himself</a> during the process of selling Instagram to Facebook. On December 17th, Instagram updated its <a href="http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/updated/">terms of use</a> to announce, among other changes, that its users now <blockquote>"agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you."</blockquote> In response, Wired has posted <a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/how-to-download-your-instagram-photos-and-kill-your-account/">How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account</a>. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/114697/You-got-Facebooks-in-my-Instagrams">Previously</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122998Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:39:56 -0800davidjmcgeeSomething there is that doesn't love a wall,that wants it downhttp://www.metafilter.com/122866/Something%2Dthere%2Dis%2Dthat%2Ddoesnt%2Dlove%2Da%2Dwall%2Dthat%2Dwants%2Dit%2Ddown
"To the credit of today's social networks, they've brought in hundreds of millions of new participants [...] but they haven't shown the web itself the respect and care it deserves, as a medium which has enabled them to succeed. And they've now narrowed the possibilites of the web for an entire generation of users who don't realize how much more innovative and meaningful their experience could be."
Anil Dash laments <a href="http://dashes.com/anil/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html">The Web We Lost</a>, and offers some suggestions for moving forward. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122866Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:13:36 -0800oulipianfrom the Golden Age of mindless consumption!http://www.metafilter.com/122686/from%2Dthe%2DGolden%2DAge%2Dof%2Dmindless%2Dconsumption
Many of you Americans of a certain age (say, um, 40 to 60-somethings?) may find the Flickr set <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/sets/939353/">Museum of American Packaging</a> (comprising 1,711 photos) to be a certain kind of stroll down a certain offshoot of the proverbial Memory Lane. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122686Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:52:10 -0800flapjax at midniteHello, My Name is Mud.http://www.metafilter.com/122278/Hello%2DMy%2DName%2Dis%2DMud
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/sets/72057594048403252/">Just in time for the holidays: ACME Product Catalog.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.122278Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:46:38 -0800Miko